Tuesday, October 11, 2011

KAHLUA COFFEE Liqueur

Kahlúa is a Mexican coffee-flavored rum-based liqueur. It is dense and sweet, with the distinct taste of arabica coffee, from which it is made. Kahlúa also contains sugar, corn syrup and vanilla bean.

Pedro Domecq began producing Kahlúa in 1936. It was named Kahlúa, meaning "House of the Acolhua people" in the Veracruz Nahuatl language spoken before the Spanish Conquest. Such a name choice was presumably chosen to provide a Veracruzan identity to the product and feature its originality. (Kahlúa was Hispanicized as Ulúa, forming the name of modern San Juan de Ulúa fortress.)